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District Police Profile-Palamu

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The most basis function of the government is to provide a frame work of law and order.

Dear law abiding citizens of Palamu, this is indeed a golden opportunity to interact with you through this message. Palamu has been a town with it own long drawn history & cultural traditions. It is full of bounty of nature & has heritage of a glorious civilization.

But unfortunately it has been facing security challenges for quite some time be it naxal menace, land disputes to name a few. It’s now the right time for us to rise up to counter these challenges & rout the law offenders & felons.

The Police of Palamu is dedicated to serve the common man & to help them in moments of distress. Its our constant endeavour to maintain law & order, curb crime, generate respect for right of individual & basic inalienable human rights. Moreover we assure you to provide a milieu of peace & tranquility to help lay a sound platform for development.

We have been on the right track & have achieved some success in our attempts toward enhanced security environ but still we have miles to go. There is a desperate need of the hour that the police & common citizen join hands to combat criminals. In this direction we further need a ice breaking between the police & common man. The common man should consider police its friends & should not hesitate to share their problems. They shored share information about any possible security threat so that it can be neutralized at the earliest.

Remember together we can & we will make difference and I am sure that in the coming days Palamu will turn into a security paradigm to emulate.

Palamu is bounded in the north by the River Sone, in the East by the district of Aurangabad, Gaya & Chatra in the west by the district of Garhwa and in the south by Lathehar district. The plateau of Palamu extends over an area of 127,490 km which is full of forest, rivers and rivulets, hills and hillocks, waterfalls and stream, Palamu is situated between 23°20'N and 24°40'N to 85°0'E at an altitude of 222.00 mm above mean sea level. The normal rainfall in Palamu is 1257.8 mm.

For administrative convenience the district has been divided into three subdivision, 13 blocks and 289 Grampanchayats with 1910 villages. The important town of the district are Daltonganj, Chhattarpur and Japla.

Agriculture is the main source of economy for the rural people of the district. However agriculture is mainly for subsistence and is yet to be taken up on a commercial basis due to lack of irrigation facility and other infrastructure bottlenecks.

Palamu is one of the richest district of Jharkhand in forest in forest resources. The species of forest trees which are found in the district include Sal, Dhaure, Mahua, Kendu, Bamboo, Asan etc. The major products of forest include Timber, Palas, Firewood, Sal seed. Mahua seed and Biripata.

CLIMATE:- The District falls under uninsured rainfall zone and hence receives monsoon rains during June to September. The average annual rainfall of the district is 1257 mm spread over many rainy days. The district is characterized by warm climate in March to June and later on there is a gradual decline in temperature from October onwards to December and January is the coolest month of the year, while cool and dry climate is observed during November, March, April and May are the hot and dry months of the district.

IRRIGATION:- Palamu has 52113 hectare of gross area irrigated under different sources of irrigation. Tanks and ponds are the major sources of irrigation.

Security Scenario

Naxal Problem

From early 80’s naxalism infiltrated Palamu district from different parts of bordering central Bihar, i.e. Aurangabad, Rohats and Gaya district. Gradually it spread in many parts of Jharkhand. From time to time they have changed their organizational setup. In the recent times Left Wing Extremism has redefined its strategy in Jharkhand and Chattishgarh by forming a “Compact Revolutionary Zone” and launching an operation code named TCOC (Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign). Under this strategy instead of small splinter groups they have formed bigger groups by pooling smaller groups and arming them with sophisticated weapons, including mortar and other area weapons. This paradigm shift in their strategy has led to the increased activity by Maoists. They are trying for regaining the dominance in the interiors hampering all governmental activities like construction of road, bridges, other developmental activities. The activities of forest department have been badly hit by their resurgence. Even the threat perception to the visiting V.I.Ps. to the district has increased manifold.

The Police set up of the district is up in areas are in offensive mood against them resulting in containing to a large extend their activities. Taking the advantage of the geography of these district dense bushy forests, hillocks, in accessible and much difficult areas. The outfits at times do engage in destructive and anti social activities and take refuge in the jungles. If you splinter groups from the maoist organisation have also come out and formed seperate organisation naming themselves TPC i.e. Tirtiya Prastuti Committee , P.L.F.I. (Peoples liberation Front of India), J.P.C and Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad.

Action against all the group are being carried with view to contain these activities.

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